[B-Greek] Solecisms in the book of Revelation

Dr. Don Wilkins drdwilkins at verizon.net
Mon Aug 18 14:04:26 EDT 2008


I would agree with Vasile, though other explanations may be possible.  
This is certainly a good example of the issue, perhaps the same level  
as APO hO in 1:4. As would be expected, later scribes supplied  
"fixes" for both.

Don Wilkins

On Aug 18, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Vasile Stancu wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Leonard  
> Jayawardena
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 9:05 PM
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] Solecisms in the book of Revelation
>
> Leonard Jayawardena wrote:
>
> ... there seems to be a genuine grammatical error in Revelation  
> 7:9: The
> participle "clothed" (PERIBEBLHMENOUS) is accusative plural,  
> whereas we
> would expect it to be nominative plural (PERIBEBLHMENOI) to agree  
> with the
> noun phrase 'great multitude' like the participle  
> 'standing' (hESTWTES).
> Again, hESTWTES and PERIBEBLHMENOUS are plural in spite of the subject
> OCHLOS being singular because of notional concordance (?), but the  
> relative
> pronoun following the same subject in v. 9 is hON, whereas  
> consistency would
> demand that it be hOUS.
>
> A solecism can be regarded as deliberate if there is any discernible
> intention behind it but what conceivable purpose could there have  
> been, for
> example, for the first-mentioned irregularity mentioned in the  
> preceding
> paragraph, i.e., why is "clothed" in the accusative instead of in the
> nominative?
> -----------------------------------
>
> Could it be that the accusative is used here in order to emphasise  
> more
> strongly the idea of (passively) "being clothed by somebody else" as
> compared to the middle voice action of "just having clothed  
> themselves"?
>
> Vasile STANCU
>
>
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